Felicija Nijolė Sadūnaitė

Nijole Sadunite is a member of a Catholic Religious Order who was active in the anti-Soviet resistance.  In 1975 she was arrested, tortured, tried, convicted and imprisoned for her work on Chronicles of the Catholic Church in Lithuania, an underground record of the Soviet’s anti-religious repression. She has detailed the Soviet use of psychiatric hospitals as places of torture and punishment.

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